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Here are some projects that are occupying some brain space and that I am keeping an eye on, in no particular order (to demonstrate that, I shuffled before publishing). Some are because they do a lot with a small amount of code/people, some are because they feel like they are poking at something very new and cool, and some are excellent learning resources.

  • Roc, a fast, friendly programming language
  • YJIT, a JIT for Ruby based on Maxime's research on basic block versioning
  • bril, an educational compiler IR
  • AtomVM, a small BEAM (Erlang) VM for small devices
  • onramp, a bootstrapping C compiler
  • wild, an incremental linker
  • Taskflow, a graph-based parallel task system
  • Alan, an autoscalable programming language
  • elfconv, an ELF to Wasm AOT compiler
  • bifrost, a p2p library that supports multiple transports
  • dulwich, a pure Python Git implementation
  • HVM, a massively parallel interaction combinator VM for the GPU
  • Pyret, a functional programming language with some excellent ideas and a great pedagogical focus
  • ir, the JIT internals for PHP
  • Iroh, a toolkit for building distributed applications
  • simple-abstract-interpreter, just what it says on the tin
  • ssa-optimizer, an educational SSA-based optimizer
  • micrograd, ccml, and cccc, small, educational autodiff libraries
  • Natalie, an AOT Ruby compiler
  • plzoo, which has multiple different small PL implementations with different semantics
  • tinygrad, a small autodiff library with big plans
  • MaPLe compiper, a compiler for automatic fork/join parallelism in SML
  • try, to inspect a command's effects before modifying your live system
  • mold, a fast and parallel linker
  • monoruby, a full Ruby VM and JIT by one person
  • MicroHs, Haskell implemented with combinators in a small C++ core
  • Cake, a C23 frontend and compiler to older C versions
  • Toit, a VM from the Strongtalk lineage and management software for fleets of ESP32s
  • Cosmopolitan, a C library that can build very portable self-contained binaries
  • gf, a very usable GUI GDB frontend
  • MatMul-free LLM, an implementation of transformer-based large language models without matrix multiplication
  • Bun, a fast JS runtime based on JavaScriptCore
  • Porffor, a from-scratch AOT JS engine
  • weval, a WebAssembly partial evaluator
  • Riker, correct and fast incremental builds using system call tracing
  • arcan, a new display server and window system
  • container2wasm, to run containers in WebAssembly
  • LPython, a very early stages optimizing Python compiler
  • Pydrofoil, a fast RISC-V emulator based on RPython, the PyPy internals
  • Fil-C, a project where Fil Pizlo is making a memory-safe version of C
  • Oil shell, a new Bash-compatible shell with fresh ideas and its own Python-esque compiler
  • bigint, a small arbitrary precision integer library for C
  • chibicc
  • bcgen, which is kind of like Ertl's VMGen, and copyjit, which is like Copy and Patch
  • joos, a KVM virtual machine manager in JavaScript
  • pocketpy, a little Python implementation that can be bundled into one C file
  • gate, content-addressable Wasm RPC/RCE
  • cjit, a JIT for C
  • wuffs, a safe and hermetic programming language for dealing with file formats
    • this is one of the coolest projects I have seen in a while

Not quite code but presenting very cool ideas:

What I am working on: